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U. WASSMBR.

(Model.)

HOB;

No. 255.708. Patented Mar. 28,1882.

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ULRICH wAssMnn, or CINCINNATI, oHIo, AssreNoa To MARTIN BARE,

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HOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 255,708, dated March`28,1882.

Application filed October 27, 1881. (Model.)

To all whom Ait may concern:

Be it known that I, ULRICH WAssiIEn, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hoes, of whichthe followingr is a specification.

The object ot' my invention is t) lessen the cost of construction of hoes and at the same gle-bladed hoe is to be attached, and through which the handle is inserted. Fig. 2 is a central section through a single-bladed hoe constructed according to my invention, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the eyeto be used with a double-bladed hoe. Fig. 4 is a central section through the eye of a double-bladed hoe with the blade attached.

A is the eye through which the handle is inserted.` Near one end ot' this eye A is the ilange or shoulder a, which is extended at opposite sides of the eye to form the ears a. One of these ears, `in the case of a singlebladed hoe, is provided with a rivet, b, the other ear being provided with the broad hook b', which, when the blade is secured to the eye, hooks over the upper edge of the blade, as shown in Fig. 2, forminga shieldlto give additional strength tothe hoe. As a further means of strengthening the eye A, a rib or brace, d, is formed in the angle between the body ot' the eye and the ear a. Vhen the eye is to be used with a single-bladed hoe both of the ears are provided with the rivets, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4.

, 1f preferred, more than two rivets may be used. This will be more especially desirable in single-hladed hoes, placing a-rivet at either side ot' the eye and one below, theshield b being above. t

At the end ofthe eye A is an annular ilange,v

\ b, are larger at the rear face of the blade than at the frontface, tapering continuously from the front to the rear face, so that when the rivets b and flange c have been inserted into the proper holes in the blade and hammered down the blade will be securely fastened to the eye, and will not become loosened by wear of the rear face of the blade., This eye, with its flanges and rivets, is cast of some malleable metal--as, for example, ,iron, crueiblesteel, dre-and the blade is stamped or otherwise cut from sheet metal, preferably steel.

rllhe holes for the reception of the rivets b and l flange c being punched or drilled, the blade and the eye are pnt together, and the rivets and the flange c hammered down, as shown in the drawings, and the hoe is complete, ready for the handle. The opening through the eye is larger at the end connected to the blade than at the other end, and the handle, which is enlarged at the endto fit the eye, is to be introduced through the eye from thislarger end, so that the hoe cannot come olf from the handle.

The eye to be used with a single-bladed hoe is made likeI the eye for a donble-bladed hoe, with the exceptionof the hook or shield b', under which the ripper edge of the blade ot the hoe is placed, and which in ya single-bladed hoe is replaced by a rivet.

By the employment of my invention I am enabled to greatly reduce the cost ot' manufacture and make ahandsomer-frnished hoe than is now made by the old method.

l/Vhat l claim as new and of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a hoe, the shank A, provided with surrounding flange a, annular flange c, ears d, and one ormore rivets, b, all formed ot' one piece, in combination with the blade of a hoe, substantially as described.

. 2. lhe hollow shank or eye A, provided with annular flange c and surrounding Bange a, having one or more rivets b and guard b', all formed in one piece, in combination with the blade of a hoe, substantially as described.

3. In combination with the blade of a hoe, the eye A, having annular flange c, ears a', rivets b, and braces d, formed in one piece, substantially as described. ULRICH WASSMER.

Attest:

JOHN J MoLLoY, E. lt. HILL. 

